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Originally Posted by Sam Mac
George
You may want to take a look at the starter section in the Vanguard service manual. When you do look at the plastic gear starter. I think you will find that the helix is what moves the pinion gear into place to engage the ring gear and once started the speed of the ring gear, the starter motor slowing and the spring is what retracts the pinion gear.  |
ok,
I do not have that starter in my hand, I was speaking of what normally happens.
inertia/helix engages it and over running disengages it, like others have said.
something has to keep it out of the ring gear, I would think.
But I have been wrong, and my wife likes to remind me of that
